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Ten days ago, there were 183 active cases of COVID-19 spread through the four rivertown villages. At mid-month, that aggregate figure had fallen to 102, with Irvington reporting only two active cases. In addition, “the number of fatalities has been dropping dr... More »

As of midnight Thursday night, fully half of New York State’s ten designated “regions” will be qualified to begin Phase One of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s metric-driven reopening plan. That is when the Central New York area, consisting of Cortland, Cayuga, Madison... More »

By Barrett Seaman The seventh of the seven criteria Governor Andrew Cuomo is requiring of each of the state’s ten regions before they can begin to re-open calls for them to have 30 contact tracers for each 100,000 in population “or based on their infection rat... More »

By Barrett Seaman As a fourth region of the state qualified to begin re-opening as of this weekend, Westchester County’s metrics continued to move close to meeting the seven criteria laid out by the state. There are only 2,985 active cases of COVID-19 in the c... More »

This is the first of a series of brief profiles of fellow citizens of the rivertowns whose actions, while not necessarily obvious, reflect the best of human nature at a time of crisis. If you know of others who fit this description, please nominate them by wri... More »

By Barrett Seaman Ever the disciplined disciple of data, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced at his Monday press briefing that three regions of the state appear to have met the seven metric criteria he established and can thus commence a partial re-opening of thei... More »

Originally resolved by the Board of trustees one month ago, the following BAN on THE USE OF LEAF BLOWERS as a means of PREVENTing THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 was issued thursday: WHEREAS, in the best interests of the public health, safety and welfare, that the Boa... More »

By Barrett Seaman Ever since New York State went into its PAUSE lockdown in mid-March, there has been a daily online ritual, starting with Governor Cuomo’s 11:30 a.m. briefing from wherever he happened to be and ending later in the day with a briefing by Westc... More »

By Robert Kimmel It is rare that Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner and Westchester County Executive George Latimer are in “complete disagreement” with each other over an issue. Nonetheless, that is exactly the term Latimer used this week to describe ... More »

In the wake of his earlier announcement that county frontline workers will be testing for antibodies at the County Center, the County Executive announced that New York State has granted the Department of Health to go into nursing homes and begin testing for th... More »

By Rick Pezzullo More than 10,000 pounds of food was collected May 2 at a food drive sponsored by New York State Senator Peter Harckham in Sleepy Hollow. In addition to the food gathered by 40 volunteers in the parking lot across from Village Hall on Beekman ... More »

Starting Monday, May 4, Westchester’s first responders are invited to be tested to see if they are carrying the antibody to the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over a thousand of the county’s residents to date. The testing is ... More »

By Robert Kimmel Within a month from the time The Rotary Club of the Tarrytowns began asking for donations to help provide meals for first responders and others affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the local business group has raised $47,000. The Rotary began it... More »

Reports that CVS and Walgreens are both offering expanded testing for COVID-19 do not apply to local branches of the two national chains. According to the Daily Voice and other online news publications, Walgreens will be establishing free drive-through nasal t... More »

There were, as of the beginning of May, 6,756 active cases of the virus, County Executive George Latimer reported on Friday. A month ago, that number was over 8,000. Since the first case of COVID-19 in February, the county has had 29,323 cases. Nearly 100,000 ... More »

A week ago, there were 223 reported cases of COVID-19 in Sleepy Hollow; 168 in Tarrytown. Today’s report by Westchester County Executive George Latimer put those numbers at 284 and 206. Irvington had nine more cases while Dobbs Ferry posted 16 more. As a perce... More »

By Maria Ann Roglieri Dr. Anna Komorowski, Medical Director of the Medical Oncology and Hematology Program at Phelps Hospital/Northwell Health Cancer Institute in Sleepy Hollow, and her healthcare team, have initiated a convalescent plasma study at Phelps Memo... More »

The death toll from COVID-19 rose over one thousand in Westchester County overnight Tuesday. And yet, the overall trend of the virus in the county reflects fewer numbers infected and fewer in hospitals. As of Wednesday, there were 7,679 active COVID-19 cases i... More »

By Barrett Seaman A day after announcing that New York State would follow a two-phased process for re-introducing economic activity, Governor Andrew Cuomo filled in some of the details on the trigger mechanisms and checklists the state would apply on the road ... More »

By Barrett Seaman Yet another day of gradual improvement in key indicators—lower numbers of new cases, intubations and deaths—provided a stage from which New York’s governor could announce how the state will decide and then manage a re-opening process. First, ... More »